Well we had a moth infestation. Decided to bomb the house and throw out any potential overrun food products. But my wife had a lot of oatmeal left over from a recent cookie baking session. No visable signs of moth tomfoolery in the oatmeal but playing it safe and getting rid of it.

BUT....it's like five freaking pounds of oatmeal. That's quite a waste. Was looking around for recipes for rolled oats and everything I saw just had it as a bit part ingredient.

Sooooo....anyone have ideas? Want Oatmeal as the primary ingredient. Not looking to make anything award winning or even brag worthy, but I do want something that is drinkable and preferably low effort/cost as I'm new to this and complicated hop schedules are very intimidating at this point.

Moar cookies? A 10-gallon batch of oatmeal stout can probably take care of a couple pounds.

Certainly not a primary ingredient in beer.

There are some historical recipes which use oat malt as the major grist ingredient, but non-mashed oats aren't easy to use. They're full of fats and oils and stuff which, when used in relatively small proportions, add a lovely silky character to the beer. Used much beyond 20% and they'll present significant difficulties with lautering, not to mention the beer will be a cloudy, oily mess that won't taste very nice at all.

It's a shame, but ... check with your local homebrew club. Maybe you can rid yourself of it in smaller proportions.